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ill rice- farms, never mixed, however, as far as I could 

 observe, with other birds. 



A young male in changing plumage was shot the W^^ 

 of May. Its colors underneath and on the sides of the head 

 are grayish isabel, with brownish shaft-stripes on the 

 feathers of the chest and sides of body, whole upper sur- 

 face and tail grayish brown , with isabel-colored edges 

 to the feathers of crown, back and scapulars. Quills and 

 wing-coverts black , with a few isabel-colored edges left 

 to the secondaries and wing-coverts, feathers of crown 

 intermixed with some new developed black ones , the olive- 

 yellow superciliar stripe still left , but intermixed with 

 some black feathers , chin and throat entirely black , also 

 the sides of the rump , the vent , thighs and under tail- 

 coverts. Edge of wing and lesser wing-coverts pure yellow, 

 under wing-coverts like in adult specimens. Bill blackish 

 horn-color , lower mandible paler , feet brownish flesh-co- 

 lor, iris brown. 



A female , apparently adult , shot SO^b September in a very 

 worn plumage , differs somewhat from the description , 

 given , on the authority of Cassin , by Finsch and Hartlaub. 

 The whole under surface of my specimen is isabel-color , 

 tinged with olive-yellow, which color prevails on the 

 eyebrows, throat and chest; thighs and sides of abdomen 

 slight fulvous , upper surface olivaceous , with broad , dark 

 brown shaft-streaks , especially on head , neck , mantle and 

 axillaries. Tail-feathers , quills and larger wing-coverts 

 grayish brown , lesser wing-coverts brown , conspicuously 

 edged with olive-yellow, the primaries narrowly edged 

 outside with silvery-gray. Iris brown, bill and feet pale 

 flesh-color. 



Adult male: Iris brown, bill and feet bluish black. 



Sp ermospiza haematina. 



Spermospiza haematina (cT) et guttata (Q), Vieill. Ois. 

 chant, pis. 67 & 68; — Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 138. 



Notes froiïi the Leyden. ]VIiiseu.ni, Vol. VII. 



